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Everyone's bachelor party has that one great tale that makes everyone who attended smile inside when they think of it.  At my bachelor party, it was a little different.  Saturday night a couple of hours after we all went to bed, there was a sleep walking incident that we just have to share.  It is funny how perspective can make the same event even funnier once the two stories are put together.  (Paul and I finally pieced everything together over the FRS radios on the drive home)

Tom's perspective:  I was sleeping all cozy in the Montero.  I think I was having a dream about a deer being outside the car because I kept hearing some rustling.  All of the sudden, the passenger side door opens and something is trying to climb in over the potato chips making a lot of noise and being very clumsy.  I screamed AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!  I looked and all I could see is a silhouette of a dark creature trying to get into the car, but it kept slipping.  Once I screamed, the creature screamed back  UUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH! even louder.  I realized the deer didn't have any antlers so I asked at the top of my lungs "Where are your antlers?".  The creature replied "I don't have any!"  It was then that the moonlight lit up the figure and I realize it was my brother Paul.  I asked him "What the hell do you think your doing?".  He replied, "Trying to get in".  I said "wait a minute, and I'll move this stuff", he replied "never mind, I'll go somewhere else".

The whole thing still didn't make much sense to me.  I was a little concerned for Paul, but I figured he just couldn't sleep and was looking for a place to be.  He left my car and went back inside his trailer.  I went back to sleep.

Paul's Perspective: (He thought it was all just a dream) In the middle of the night he realized he needed to go to the bathroom, so he got up from his trailer and headed for the out house.  (Realizing that he is sleep walking from here only adds to the story)  Upon getting to the out house, he couldn't find the opening into it, or a door.  Eventually, he found something like a door knob and got a door to open.  The doorway had a weird stoop which he didn't see at first and so he tripped.  But there was something blocking the doorway so he didn't fall.  He tried several more times, but couldn't figure out how to climb the stoop.  It was then he realized he had woken a bear which was sleeping in the room. It roared furiously at him "AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!" to which he screamed "UUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!" back even louder.  The bear didn't come after him so he figured he still might have a chance to go to the bathroom and continued to try to climb in.  It was then that the bear asked him "Where are your antlers?".  Confused by the bear's question, but not wanting to look like food, he replied "I don't have any!" Then the bear told him he would make room for him if he wanted to come inside.  Once again, not wanting to become food, he told the bear he would go to the bathroom somewhere else, and left.

In the morning I asked Paul what he was trying to do last night.  He didn't remember trying to get into my car during the night and said he must have been sleep walking.  Later in the day, Paul looked a little distracted and mentioned he had the weirdest dream the night before.  That he had encountered a talking bear that tried to invite him to be dinner.  We shared our stories independently with the group. Eventually we realized the two stories were one.  It wasn't until the drive home that we were really able to piece the whole thing together.

It makes for a funny story!

See you at the wedding!

- Thomas